Arthur Sutherland

Arthur Sutherland was the alias of a Lieutenant Gamble of the British Army. Gamble served under Major John Andre as an intelligence agent during the American Revolutionary War, and he attempted to assassinate George Washington's head of intelligence, Nathaniel Sackett, in 1777.

Biography
Gamble was born in Scotland, and he enlisted in the British Army's intelligence unit under Major John Andre. In December of 1777, he was sent to the camp of General George Washington with the alias of "Lieutenant Arthur Sutherland of the Royal Fusiliers", a deserter from the British who wanted to warn Washington of a plot against his life at the hands of one Bartholomew Wilcox Shanks. Sutherland appeared to be telling the truth when Benjamin Tallmadge interviewed him, but Shanks later stated that he heard Andre speaking with a man named Gamble about assassinating Washington; when Tallmadge asked Shanks about Gamble's appearance, Shanks told him that he had a fencing scar on his face, revealing that Sutherland was a British agent. However, Sutherland was able to kill Washington's intelligence agent Nathaniel Sackett when he was sent to debrief him, cutting his throat and stealing documents on the Culper Ring. Gamble proceeded to escape to Philadelphia, delivering the information to Major Andre, who told him that he should continue his mission to destroy the Culper Ring.